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LOT 1649
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Interlaced Beast Mount
11TH CENTURY A.D.
7/8 in. (2.92 grams, 22 mm).
With openwork Urnes Style design of coiled serpent with head at the lower edge, two upper coils forming the attachment loops.
ProvenanceFound Doncaster, UK.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Cf. Hammond, Brett, British Artefacts Volume 3 - Late Saxon, Late Viking & Norman, 2013, p.27 for explanation of the style; and p.53, Fig.1.6-n, for an example of another Urnes style mount.
FootnotesThe style of the piece is very reminiscent of a bronze Urnes Style brooch in the Nationalmuseet, Copenhagen published in Wilson, D.M. and Klindt-Jensen, O. Viking Art, London, 1968, pl.LXXIII (f). The swept curves of the tendrils which enmesh the serpent's body are a noted feature of the style, which is found also in the great Norwegian stave churches and elsewhere.
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LOT 1649
Anglo-Scandinavian Viking Bronze Interlaced Beast Mount
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